HOW TO BREW: FRENCH PRESS
HOW TO BREW | FRENCH PRESS
This is the French press brewing recipe used at THE WORD COFFEE.
What you need
・Purified water or soft mineral water
・French press body
·kettle
A coffee scale, smartphone timer, or kitchen scale
・Stirring spoon
recipe
Ratio: Coffee powder/water = 1:14-1:16 *This time, 14g powder: 220ml water
Mesh (grind size) / Medium to medium-coarse
Water temperature: 100℃ to 93℃
-Preheat the French press by pouring hot water over it.
- Discard the water used for blanching and place the press body with the powder inside on the coffee scale.
- As soon as the timer starts, pour in all the hot water from a slightly higher position and stir several times with a spoon.
- To prevent the temperature from dropping and the flavor from escaping, cover with the plunger and wait 4 minutes.
After 4 minutes, remove the plunger and stir slowly up and down several times.
- Insert the plunger again and press slowly to complete the extraction.
-one point-
During the final press, by not pushing down all the powder that has accumulated at the bottom, but stopping the plunger about 5 to 10 cm from the powder, you will end up with a relatively clean cup with less fine powder.
*If you feel the coffee is too powdery or has an unpleasant taste, you can adjust the grind size. (Because the French press uses a metal filter, it is impossible to completely remove fine powder. If you want to remove fine powder, please use a separate fine powder separator.)
As for the strength of the coffee, if you feel it is too weak, increase the amount of powder a little, and if you feel it is too strong, reduce it.
Even after extraction is complete, extraction will continue inside the press body, resulting in over-extraction and the generation of unpleasant flavors. Once extraction is complete, immediately transfer the coffee to a cup or another container.
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